David G. Schaeffer

David G. Schaeffer is the James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University. During his career, he has made fundamental contributions to bifurcation theory and the study of systems of hyperbolic conservation laws. More recently, he has also turned his focus to mathematical problems in biology and the nonlinear dynamics of granular materials. In 1968, David Schaeffer received his PhD in mathematics at MIT under the direction of Takeshi Kotake. Following two years at Brandeis University, Schaeffer was a member of the mathematics faculty at MIT from 1970 until 1978, when he came to Duke University. His two volume work Singularities and groups in bifurcation theory (with Golubitsky and Stewart) is considered a classic reference in bifurcation theory. He has written more than 80 other publications and received numerous honors, including an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship and the Max Planck Research Award. The NDEMB conference will bring together a large body of distinguished speakers in a meeting spanning pure and applied mathematics, the physical sciences, and engineering disciplines.